[proFit-list] Numbers to Pro Fit drag and drop behavior characterized- source and app posted

[Dave Sopchak]

Hi again,
	The app and source code are posted at:

http://home.comcast.net/~d.sopchak/WhatADrag.zip	(source)
http://home.comcast.net/~d.sopchak/WhatADrag.app.zip	(application)

enjoy.

Dave

On Mar 10, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Dave Sopchak wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	Apple's Numbers '09 drag and drop behavior was bugging me as well, so
> I whipped up a little application to see what was going on.
>
> As far as I can tell, when you drag a set of cells from Numbers, say a
> 2x2 grid, it will do a "correct" representation of the grid in Rich
> Text Format (RTF), with a bit of padding on the top and bottom. What
> it looks like Pro Fit is doing is taking the RTF format and converting
> it to "plain" format, but in doing this- I haven't had the chance to
> follow up on this- yet, the grid of numbers is lost and it becomes a
> single column. This does not happen if you do a drag and drop of a set
> of tab delimited stuff from say, TextEdit in RTF format.
>
> If pro fit went after the "string" part of the drag rather than the
> RTF part of it, I believe everything would work smoothly. There is a
> tremendous amount of stuff in the drag from Numbers, so if your mouse
> feels heavy when you do it, this explains it ;)
>
> I will be happy to post the app and the source code shortly, but for
> now I'm tired and it's been a long day, but at least I know a bit more
> about what's going on.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Dave Sopchak
>
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